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Houston, Texas Area

Key engineer responsible for finalizing prototype design and preparing for Factory Mutual product certification process. Led design of elastomer seals, system automation, and pumping system. Oversaw creation of documents required for certification. Additional responsibilities included developing test plans, conducting live fire tests, designing client specific product applications, generating proposals based on client needs, and new product development.Gained experience in design using aluminum extrusions, elastomer seal design, and system automation. Further developed design and analysis skills through hand calculations, linear elastic FEA, elastic plastic FEA, and the use of ANSYS Workbench. Accomplishments include:- Senior engineer responsible for preparing company’s first product for certification (FM Approval Standard 6090). - Led conceptual design of new product capable of achieving maximum drainage capacities 6x greater than original system. - Led effort to increase use of engineering simulation software for testing prototypes and developed partnership with ANSYS by entering ANSYS Startup Program.

Houston, Texas Area

Joined the Subsea Well Completion Systems Engineering group as a Product Engineer focused on the tubing hanger product line. Responsibilities included interpreting customer and industry requirements to properly specify equipment configurations, generate assembly and test procedures, manage root cause analyses related to product line, and developing rework plans for non-conforming equipment. Continued building knowledge of ASME Y14.5, API 6A, and API 17D. Gained exposure to ASME BPVC Section VIII Division 2. Accomplishments include: - Led product repair project saving over $400K in long lead items from being scrapped. Responsible for proving viability of different designs, documenting compliance to relevant codes and standards, creating qualification test procedures, and leading both internal and client design reviews to receive approval to proceed. - Volunteered for night shift shop support engineering position. Sole engineer on site leading technicians through troubleshooting assembly and test issues.

Houston, Texas Area

Gained experience through fixed duration assignments in various business units. Responsibilities included working as an assembly and test technician, project planner, project coordinator, and product engineer. Gained experience using SAP, Siemens NX, Teamcenter, API 6A, API 17D, ASME Y14.5, manufacturing, assembly, and component design.Accomplishments include:- Selected to take on additional projects while in shop to analyze loading caused by tool interfaces and validate that product damage would not result from their use.- Received multiple awards during planning rotation for effective communication between shop and project managers.- Developed solutions to quality issues that saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in rework and scrap costs during engineering rotation.- Selected to train in week long finite element analysis and pressure vessel design course utilizing ANSYS Mechanical.